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Life, Learning & Writing
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A Word to the Resourceful
January 2012 A year ago I noticed a pattern in the least successful startups we'd funded: they all seemed hard to talk to. It felt as if there was some kind of wall between us. I could never quite tell if they understood what I was saying. This caught my attention because earlier we'd noticed a pattern among the most…
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Why I'm a Pirate
Why I’m a Pirate! par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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On the Usability of Codecademy
Programming Zen is a blog about programming and emerging technologies, authored by Antonio Cangiano, a Software Development Manager and AI Evangelist at IBM.
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Commenting, community deterioration, and Hacker News
Main internet atau akses situs favorit pakai Indihome atau Telkomsel sering kena blokir? Tenang, BIGOBET899 punya cara paling gampang buat buka blokir tanpa ribet.
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My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s So Much Worse Than I Thought
First, let me say how fantastic it is that when you call the office, a real-live human picks up the phone and can speak to you. There’s no annoying menus, no transfers, no answering machines. Washington, please don’t ever change this.
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How I got into MIT when I was 14
Hi guys! A few folks have asked what it was like to grow up outside the traditional academic route - here's a quick piece written for GHF (G...
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This photograph is free
I've just read This photograph is not free on Petapixel.com, and I should explain why I disagree with the author and decided to give away the picture below: The photo above is
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Windows to Mac to Windows to Mac to... Linux? It doesn't matter.
Over the last 20 years, my primary computing environment has gone from Windows 3.1, to Mac OS 6/7/8/9, to Windows for about a decade, and then back to a Mac a couple of years ago. Recently, I switched to using a Linux desktop as my primary computer. I can’t say that there’s a dramatic r…
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Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates
What do you think are the odds that you will die during the next year? Try to put a number to it — 1 in 100? 1 in 10,000? Whatever it is, it will be twice as large 8 years from now. This s…
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Complete, stand alone Stanford machine learning course notes
The following notes represent a complete, stand alone interpretation of Stanford's machine learning course presented by Professor Andrew Ng and originally posted on the ml-class.org website during the fall 2011 semester. The topics covered are shown below, although for a more detailed summary see lecture 19. The code…
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Free Programming Ebooks
Since this post got quite popular I decided to incorporate some of the excellent suggestions posted in the comments, so this list now has more than …
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Farewell to MIT
I defended my Ph.D. thesis on September 7th, 2011. Technically, I'm still not done for a few complicated reasons, but at this point I am willing to declare victory and say I've graduated. Like most other major events in life, this has caused me to reflect on the past four years, when I quit my job at Google to become…
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Resolutions for programmers
It’s important for programmers to continuously challenge themselves in order to avoid creative and technical stagnation.
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Why 13th Chords
As the background to my music theory is more classical in nature, it used to puzzle me when I saw jazz chords like C9, B♭11 or F13. I mean, I knew what a 9th, 11th and 13th note were but I wondered why you'd call a note a 9th rather than a 2nd, or a 13th rather than a 6th and so on.
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The best things and stuff of 2011 by Fogus
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2011. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.